Wasn’t actually going for the wet look, but wanted to wash off the figures i was going to shoot and didn’t want to go through the trouble of drying them/waiting for them to dry.

To be honest there’s just something that doesn’t really do it for me with the water… droplets look unnatural i guess…  If i had actually been trying to be artistic or something maybe I woulda tried to disperse the drops to make them finer/more natural… guess that’s what i get for being lazy :P

On the other hand I think I’m happy with how the pics turned out otherwise.  Sharp as ever thanks to my trusty macro lens and tripod ^__^

I believe Rin hasn’t gotten any/much love on this blog…

Picked her up at fanime i think?

A pretty cheap kotobukiya figure to keep saber company… not terribly unsatisfied with the purchase :P

This rin is one of those that is bolted down to her base.

panchira~

mishiro is another figure i haven’t gotten around to reviewing yet ^^;

There was/seemed to be a lot of hype around the shuraki figures at the time… kinda disappointed they never came around with the followup series.

On the other hand I’m glad to not have been lulled into another whole series of purchases ^^;

mishiro has kind of a… what to say… generic moe?  school girl + dual wielding katana’s?  Almost seems forced or something? ^^;;;  I don’t mind though.  Katana wielding babes suki dakara na~

Ryoko’s tights provided some interesting patterns to the background above ^^;

One last one… kemeko!  Didn’t wash her ‘cuz… well, i hate putting her tentacle tube things back on ^^;

Didn’t really edit any of these so hopefully the colors and such turned out alright.

I gotta get around to taking more pics, even if not for reviews.  Had fun with this session and it’s a good motivator for keeping my figures clean.

Also from her SECRET FILE, we find that she likes pasta, tomato cuisine, Japanese sweets, cute things, and sleeping.  She hates cold foods, dark places, crows, and taking medicine.  The booklet has some nice art to look at, along with (I believe) details on her background and story in general.  I… have yet to read it all or listen to the drama cd though ^^;;

Her box is pretty huge, necesary to house the outrageous skirt/dress thing she comes with. Just to reiterate and get the message out… her huge outrageous skirt is also pretty heavy and may end up stressing and eventually breaking a foot peg. Real disappointing news for me because I love any sort of huge space hogging things like that. They give the figure a real presence that begs for attention. At any rate, because of that and the terrible time I have with the shuraki cast-off crap I didn’t get any pics of her in normal mode with the full outfit ;_;

Speaking of cast-off woes, I ended up smudging her body to all hell while messing the outfit… trying to get it on, get it off, fit the stupid tiny peg to hold it in place… ugh. So yeah, no pantsu mode shots either -_-

On the bright side, battle damage mode makes for great panchira shots.

…never mind, disregard that last comment, she’s not in battle damage mode in the above pic ^^;;

I swear someday I’ll upgrade my review setup (which shouldn’t be hard, I have nothing! -_-). Until then, here’s Rize in front of the box background on my window sill! ^^;

It was sunny out so I played around with some settings and I think some of these photos turned out better than usual (I actually really liked how the top pic in this post turned out), though that’s not saying much ^^;

So far Rize’s base is my favorite out of the shuraki set.

Alrighty, now let’s throw Rize out on the battlefield aaaaand…

I’m wondering if Rize’s halberd will ever droop into her left hand. It’s floating a good couple millimeters -_-

Battle damage pantsu.

Back battle damage pantsu?

Under battle damage bewb?

Was originally going to do a double review with Alice but got some group action goin and had so many pics, figured it’d be overboard for one post.

Kept trying to take the above pic but couldn’t get the lighting to behave -_-

Still have Nida and Meifeng in the box, so for now it’s only a set of three.

Now to get back to my roots.

Whose side is mishiro on?

今だ！　なのは行け！ {now! go nanoha!!}

ハルヒ！　頼んだよ…　え、　パンツを覗くのをね… {haruhi! we're counting on you! ... to ... look at pantsu}

aaaand we’ll wrap up with a picture that’s way too busy for its own good ^_^;;

にゃんと？！ {what the?!}

Blowfish, wcloudx, and pure trance all have more rize love, check ‘em out for more coverage. Lovelyduckie unfortunately has coverage of the heavy skirt -> pegs breaking problem if you’d like a closer look at the potential damage.

Next time, shenanigans!

err make that, Alice ^_^

Meh, not that I’m complaining, since inside… not figmas, but…

Mishiro!!!

Meifeng!!!

…and Neda!!!

Sorry for the crappy box pics, but that’ll have to suffice until I get some more time… Work’s been a bitch lately, really looking forward to the weekend.

残念ながらここまでにするから

Comes with all the usual Shuraki goodies… a secret file (art, character info, interview, etc) and drama cd.  Figure-wise Shall comes with her rapier and battle damaged outfit.

One of these days I’ll take more pictures while unpacking/removing plastic etc., but once again I was too excited to put her down, so to skip to the chase… [as with all pics, click for hi-res]

One note about her outfit… I don’t have a super large collection, but this was the first time I had a heck of time getting her outfit off.  It only separates in two places and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out how to easily slip her out.  Thought I was gonna snap something for sure.  Luckily as you can see I somehow managed to get the dress off, remove the protective plastic, and slip her back in, but man…

On display for the moment, but once again I think I’m about to move everyone back to boxes to protect against the heat ;_;  Until then…

Ah excellent, easy as pie.  Hopefully get some pics of shall up soon… for now: